Fog causes major travel disruption in the UAE

It looks like we’ll be getting a “white” Christmas after all…

Residents in Dubai and Abu Dhabi woke up to find the emirates blanketed in fog over the weekend, causing flight delays and cancellations during the busy holiday period.

The National Centre for Meteorology (NCM) issued an advisory on Saturday warning that dense fog was expected to develop over most parts of the country overnight, and would continue into Sunday and Monday mornings.

The airline cancelled 10 flights on Sunday due to the fog. Flights affected were between Dubai and Tehran, Bahrain, Dammam, Kuwait, Larnaca, Basra, Ammam, Budapest, Hong Kong and Baghdad, according to its website.

Flightradar24 shared an image of planes in a holding pattern waiting for the fog to clear so they could land at Dubai Airport:

Plenty of Flightradar24 users watching the racetracks at Dubai as flights wait out fog at the airport. Arrival rate reduced.